“Where books are only the beginning.”

In 1972, in Canyon Lake, Texas, the Pilot Club Community library opened in a donated building with donated books and volunteer workers.

The original building was 1,000 square feet and in 1983 and 1997, 2,500 square foot additions were completed.

In 2004 the Casteel family presented the Canyon Lake Community Library District with a deed to 6.1 acrees of land on the South Access Road. Construction began in 2009 and the 19,000 square foot library was reopened in the new location October 9, 2010. Architects and construction was Zaptalac-Reed Construction Company.

Canyon Lake, Texas is in Comal County and the population in July 2007 was 22,544. This marvelous library is a jewel.

We know that a library promotes literacy and learning, and also stabilizes and strengthens communities. Libraries educate and enrich lives. A free, public library is a valuable partner with school and community organizations.

Libraries change lives.

A library system is not simply about books, but about the people and the community it serves and as a community, we have the power and the privilege to shape the future – to help individuals reach their potential and to strengthen our community. My hope and my prayer is that Seguin will build a new library that meets the needs of our community.

Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries
— Arthur Ashe (1943-1993)

attentiveness

It is this simple

life is this simple

Thomas Merton

Life is this simple.
We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent
and God is shining through it all the time.
This is not just a fable or a nice story
It is true.
If we abandon ourselves to God
and forget ourselves,
we see it sometimes
and we see it maybe frequently.
God shows Godself everywhere,
In everything,
In people and in things and in nature and in events.
It becomes very obvious that God is everywhere and
in everything and we cannot be without God.
It is impossible.
The only thing is that we don't see it.